Napkin-holder table attachment



(No Model.)

J. M. HINDS.

NAPKIN HOLDER TABLE ATTACHMENT.

No. 418,025. Patented Dec. 24, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT 'GFFICE.

JOHN M. HINDS, OF PALMYRA, INDIANA.

NAPKlN-HOLDER TABLE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,025, dated December24, 1889. Application filed August 17, 1889, Serial No. 321,071- (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J OHN M. HINDs, a citizenof the United States, residing at Palmyra, in the county of Harrison andState of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in-Napkin-Holder Table Attachments; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements innapkin-holder table attachments; and it consists of a coiledbarrelspring in combination with certain elements of a napkin-holdershown in my patent, No. 404,410, granted June 4, 1889, as will behereinafter described and specifically claimed.

I11 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myinvention as adapted for use, parts of the table and bearingbracket ofthe napkin-holder table attachment being broken away to more clearlyshow the napkin, roller-j ournal, and pawl-andratchet attachments. Fig.2 is an inverted plan view of the table and napkin-holder attachments,and Fig. 3 is a detail end view showing more clearly the barrel-sprin gand its mode of attachment to the napkin-roller and the table.

A in the drawings represents a portion of a table, and B a napkin-rollerprovided with hubs l) b and reduced journals 0 c, and hung inbracket-bearings a a, attached to the table. At each end of the roller Bare applied disks (:1 d, of greater diameter than said roller, one ofwhich, that d, is ratchet-toothed for engaging with a bent spring-pawlslotted plate 0, which-is placed above it, and is suit ably attached tothe table. The teeth (Z of the disk d extend up through the slot 0 ofthe plate and normally engage with the rear wall of the slot, therebypreventing the roller from turning backward, but allowing it to turnforward; but when the spring-pawl plate is lifted by the loop c ,whichforms the handle, the roller is free to turn backward.

D is an automatic rolling-up device consisting of a barrel-springattached by one of its ends to the table, as at c, Fig. 3, coiled aroundthe hub'b of the napkin-roller B, and secured at its other end to saidhub, as shown at 6 or in any other suitable manner, the barrel-springthus arranged tending to turn the napkin-roller backward, and therebyrolling up the napkin; but the tension is counteracted when the pawl isin contact with the ratchet, as shown.

E is a table-napkin guided beneath the top of the table by a pendentangularly -bent guide-bar G, attached to the under side of the table,said napkin being detachably connected by one of its ends to thenapkin-roller B by suitable fasteningsas, for instance, hooks andeyes-as in my aforesaid patent, and having at its other or free end asplit elastic neckband f, which is looped, as at f to a stay-rod f,which is also detachably connected to the napkin by hooks and eyes, orotherwise suitably. The napkin can thus be easily removed from theneckband and roller when required to be washed or for other purposes andanother replaced.

It will be seen from the aforegoing description and accompanyingdrawings that my present invention differs from my hereinbeforementionedpatent in that it dispenses with the use of elastic bands and a rearroller as a means of rolling up and unrolling the napkin, and thesubstitution therefor of a coiled barrel-spring. By these improvements Iam enabled to construct a napkin-holder table attachment which issimple, convenient, du-

rable, and cheap, and which is convenient for being applied to a table,as by this construction ample room will always be afforded for applyingthe attachment between the tablebar and the edge of the table, which"would not always be the case under my other construction.

The operation of this invention being substantially the same as in myabove-referredto patent, it need not be stated here.

In the drawings I have shown only a single attachment applied to onepart of a table; but it is obvious that any number of these attachmentsacting independently of each other may be applied on a single table.

Having described my invention, What I In testimony whereof I hereuntoafiix my IO claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters signature inpresence of two witnesses.

Patent, is-

The combination of a napkin-roller adapted to be applied beneath the topor frame of a. table opposite the place where a person sits, a pawl C,disk (1, and a coiled barrelspring for rolling up and uurolling thenapkin, substantially as described.

JOHN H. HINDS.

Vitnesses:

WILLIAM VOYLEs, LOGAN E. ROBERTS.

